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China opens its borders to foreigners who take Chinese shots, as geopolitical vaccine silos emerge
Julia Hollingsworth CNN 20 March 2021 Hong Kong (CNN) — China is making it easier for foreigners to enter the country. But there’s one condition: they need to have received a China-made Covid-19 vaccine. At least 23 Chinese embassies around the world issued new visa policies over the past week with this read more →
US is ‘fundamentally at odds’ with China, says top American diplomat
Yashwant Raj, Hindustan Times. March 20, 2021. Blinken warned the Chinese against betting against the US and Sullivan chided them for their lack of confidence in dealing with criticism. The United States and China are “fundamentally at odds”, American Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday after the conclusion of read more →
In First Talks, Dueling Accusations Set Testy Tone for U.S.-China Diplomacy
By Lara Jakes New York Times March 19 2021 ANCHORAGE — Even before the Biden administration’s first face-to-face meeting with senior Chinese diplomats on Thursday, American officials predicted the discussions would not go well. They were right: The traditional few minutes of opening greetings and remarks dissolved into more than an read more →
France rebuffs China after warnings to lawmakers over Taiwan visit
Reuters 17 March 2021 PARIS (Reuters) – French Senators are free to meet whomever they wish when they travel, the country’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday after the Chinese embassy in Paris warned against lawmakers meeting officials during an upcoming visit to self-ruled Taiwan. China’s ambassador in February sent a read more →
China catalyzes the consolidation of the ‘Quad’
Brahma Chellaney Japan Times 18 March 2021 The “Quad,” as its recent virtual summit underscored, has come a long way in cementing a strategic coalition of the leading democracies of the Indo-Pacific region. Comprising Australia, India, Japan and the United States, it has gradually sharpened its edges since 2019 in read more →
China’s Panchen Lama: ‘Anti-China Forces’ Hype Tibet For Political Gain
Reported by Lobsang Gelek for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. Tibet’s Beijing-appointed Panchen Lama in a speech this month slammed what he called foreign interference in Tibetan affairs, saying that “anti-China forces” care nothing for the Tibetan people and only raise issues read more →
Bolstered by allies, Biden officials take blunt message to first China talks
Michael Martina, Yew Lun Tian, Humeyra Pamuk Reuters 17 March 2021 WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) – The United States will take an uncompromising stance in talks with China on Thursday in Alaska, officials have said, in the first face-to-face meetings between senior officials from the two rivals since U.S. President Joe Biden took office. read more →
Why is Britain standing up to China
WION 16 March 2021 Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday acknowledged that China will pose a “great challenge” for the UK as he set out the findings of a major review of foreign policy. Addressing the British parliament, Johnson said that the UK has “led the international community in expressing our read more →
EU agrees China sanctions over Uighur crackdown
Economic Times 17 March 2021 EU member states have agreed to impose sanctions on four Chinese officials and one state-owned entity over Beijing’s crackdown on the Uighur minority, European diplomats said Wednesday. Ambassadors from the 27 countries gave the green light for the measures as part of a package of read more →
US sanctions 24 Chinese and Hong Kong officials
Washington Post 17 March 2021 HONG KONG — The U.S. sanctioned an additional 24 Chinese and Hong Kong officials over Beijing’s ongoing crackdown on political freedoms in the semi-autonomous city, including a decision to overhaul Hong Kong’s electoral system. The sanctions announced Tuesday in Washington were introduced under the Hong read more →
Democracies Should Help Liberate Tibet – For All Humanity
Tsering Samphel for Taiwan Times. Sixty years ago, on March10, 1959, in Lhasa, the holy city, in the capital city of Tibet, hundreds of thousands of Tibetans formed a massive barricade around Norbulingka, the summer palace of His Holiness, the Dalai Lama to safeguard him and their country from falling read more →
Quad summit | Small cliques will destroy international order, says China
Ananth Krishnan | The Hindu | 15 March 2021 In a strong reaction to Friday’s first leaders’ summit of the Quad — India, the United States, Japan and Australia — and the upcoming visits this week of the U.S. Secretary of Defence to Japan, South Korea and India, China’s Foreign Ministry hit out read more →
‘Tibet Hill’ Proposed For Site Near New Chinese Embassy in London
Reported and translated by Tashi Wangchuk for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Written in English by Richard Finney. March 16, 2021. Diplomats working at a Chinese Embassy to be built in the borough of Tower Hamlets in London’s East End should be reminded each day of their government’s treatment of Tibetans and read more →
Encrypted messaging app Signal blocked in China
Washington Post | 16 March 2021 HONG KONG — Encrypted messaging app Signal appears to have been blocked in mainland China, the latest foreign social media service to cease working in a country where the government tightly controls the flow of information. As of Tuesday, users of the app within read more →
The Right Way to Boycott the Beijing Olympics: Opinion I Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney for The New York Times. As the Beijing Olympic Games approach, it is increasingly clear that China, under the control of the Chinese Communist Party does not deserve an Olympic showcase. Because it is too late to move the Winter Games scheduled for Beijing next February, some have read more →